Marshall University · West Virginia

Marshall University scholarships and merit aid

Marshall rewards high-achieving students with competitive merit awards, especially those interested in honors programs.

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The short answer

Is Marshall University worth a closer look?

Marshall University is worth checking if your student has strong grades or scores. We found 12 published awards, and 5 are based on those numbers.

Merit tiers125 based on grades or scores

First-year students with school awards18%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025

Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

Where you landAutomatic merit aid by ACT compositeEach bar marks the ACT score range that qualifies for the tier.

John Marshall Scholarship$5,500

ACT 30SAT 1360 · GPA 3.9

John Laidley Scholarship$4,500

ACT 28SAT 1300 · GPA 3.7

Board Of Governors Scholarship$4,000

ACT 26SAT 1230 · GPA 3.5

Presidential Scholarship$3,000

ACT 24SAT 1160 · GPA 3.25

A. Michael Perry Scholarship$2,500

ACT 22SAT 1100 · GPA 3

Not on this ladder: John Laidley, Tier I Alumni Legacy, Tier 2 Alumni Legacy, John Marshall, Society Of Yeager Scholars, Board Of Governors, Athletic Scholarships — application required, holistic, or scored on a different axis.

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Tier	ACT composite	Award
John Marshall Scholarship	30	$5,500
John Laidley Scholarship	28	$4,500
Board Of Governors Scholarship	26	$4,000
Presidential Scholarship	24	$3,000
A. Michael Perry Scholarship	22	$2,500

$12,000

John Laidley

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GPA: 3.7
SAT: 1300
ACT: 28

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Amount not published

Tier I Alumni Legacy

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GPA: 3.5
SAT: 1240
ACT: 26

Source

Amount not published

Tier 2 Alumni Legacy

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GPA: 2.75
SAT: 1130
ACT: 23

Source

$14,000

John Marshall

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GPA: 3.9
SAT: 1360
ACT: 30

Source

Full cost of attendance

Society Of Yeager Scholars

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$10,500

Board Of Governors

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GPA: 3.5
SAT: 1230
ACT: 26

Source

$3,000

Presidential Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.25
SAT: 1160
ACT: 24

Source

$2,500

A. Michael Perry Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3
SAT: 1100
ACT: 22

Source

Amount not published

Athletic Scholarships

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Source

$4,500

John Laidley Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.7
SAT: 1300
ACT: 28

Source

$4,000

Board Of Governors Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.5
SAT: 1230
ACT: 26

Source

$5,500

John Marshall Scholarship

Based on grades or scores

GPA: 3.9
SAT: 1360
ACT: 30

Source

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Who this school may work for

Students with strong academic records who want to be part of a vibrant honors community should explore Marshall's merit-based awards. Legacy applicants may find additional pathways to recognition.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $9,618 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Marshall University, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Marshall University, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$4,648
$30,001–$48,000	$4,430
$48,001–$75,000	$6,837
$75,001–$110,000	$11,227
$110,001+	$15,076
All income levels (average)	$7,502

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $9,162
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $20,342
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $7,502

That works out to roughly a 66% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $22,022 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Marshall University is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 51%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 72%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $23,250 (~$246/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $46,354
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 51%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 43%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Marshall University's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Marshall University's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

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More school data

From the Marshall University Common Data Set 2024-2025:

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Marshall University’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.

18%of admitsget merit

Average award$3,518Covers ~37% of $9,618 cost of attendance

At Marshall University, roughly 1 in 6 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $3,518 — about 37% of total cost.

As filed in Marshall University's CDS Section H2A: of 1,921 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 353 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $3,518. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 1,093 of 7,060, averaging $3,721. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

Receive institutional merit18%First-year students, Common Data Set 2024-2025

Average merit award$3,518Across recipients, Common Data Set 2024-2025

Source: Common Data Set 2024-2025 (verified 2026-07-23)

Other Marshall University scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

Honors College Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Honors College Scholarship is an additional scholarship award for students who receive a freshmen merit-based scholarship and accept admission into the Marshall University Honors College; it is awarded for four academic years if renewal conditions are met, including a 3.3 overall GPA at the end of each academic year.

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Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Marshall University’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceMarshall University cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersJohn Laidley
Merit tiersPresidential Scholarship

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